Dan Wendlandt
VP Of Cloud Native Networking & Security (Leading Isovalent Cisco)
United States
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Top SchoolDan Wendlandt is a seasoned technology leader with 15+ years building datacenter and cloud-native networking, security, and observability solutions, currently leading Isovalent's Cloud Native Networking & Security efforts within Cisco. As co-founder and former CEO of Isovalent, he helped create and commercialize Cilium and the eBPF ecosystem (ebpf.io), technologies now adopted by major cloud providers and enterprises. His background blends hands-on engineering, product management and open-source stewardship dating back to Nicira/Open vSwitch, VMware cloud-native initiatives, and founding work on OpenStack Neutron. Dan pairs academic rigor from Carnegie Mellon and Stanford with repeat entrepreneurial success, focusing on practical, production-grade infrastructure for microservices. Beyond executive leadership he still contributes directly to projects like the Cilium docs, emphasizing developer experience and adoption rather than only architecture.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (9)
documentation10
vagrant8
cilium6
azure6
kubernetes-pods5
security5
ebpf5
networking5
kubernetes5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Nov 2016 - Feb 2024
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:31 PRs, 2 branches, 122 comments in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the project's documentation, evidenced by their commits. They added success/failure messages to a Vagrant start script and, more significantly, updated and expanded the "getting started" guide, including examples and instructions. The user also fixed formatting issues and made minor content adjustments across the documentation, indicating a focus on improving user experience and clarity.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
danwent/cilium
Mar 2017 - Apr 2020
BPF & XDP for containers
Contributions:75 pushes, 41 branches, 1 comment in 3 years 1 month
containersbpfdockerxdpkubernetes
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